In the last days I monitored the PostgreSQL logfile on my webserver to find slow queries in the Serendipity blog software. I was hunting another bug in the “events” module, therefore I decided it’s woth the additional work and maybe I can tweak some settings to speed up the response time a bit.
FOSDEM 2009 will take place February 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. Like last year we expect to have a booth and a devroom, the latter one together with the BSD groups.
As requested here are the pictures from sunday after PGDay.
The Italians decided that we will have lunch in a good restaurant outside of Prato. At 11am, Gabriele joined the hungry crowd in the hotel, 10 Italian minutes later we also had enough car space available for all people ;-) So we drove to Montepiano and there’s the wonderful Ristorante Margherita:
Continuing our two-day event PGDay we have seen more interesting talks and devroom sessions on the second day.
The day started with David Fetters running into the room on time and talking about Trees and More in SQL. The next time you have to solve a Traveling salesman problem you can solve this in your favourite database.
Friday in the evening we had a party which was sponsored by EnterpriseDB. Thank’s a lot!
Today, in the closing note, Gabriele told us that we only drank half of the free beer and we had to continue the party after the PGDay was officially closed.
Magnus and I arrived early in Prato. Later on Wednesday in the night, Dave and Greg joined us. So on Thursday we had time to help preparing PGday.
Yesterday Magnus and I met at Frankfurt/Main Airport and flew together to Florence. People, don’t try to find this ominous CAP bus station on the highway! Just take the ATAF bus heading to Florence station, the stop is right outside the airport near all the white cabs. You can’t miss it. The bus driver sells you a ticket for 4,50€ to Santa Maria Novella. On the station you need another ticket, it cost 1,80€ but the ticket machine knows English. You have to look for a train heading to “Lucca”.
UniHelp e.V. - a registered student association in Magdeburg/Germany - announces the release of xPyrus, a framework for operating communities and document sharing platforms.
The framework is based on PHP 5 and PostgreSQL and has been running the students’ community UniHelp.de (a platform for exchanging study-related documents and connecting students) in Magdeburg since 2002.
The entire framework is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 at xpyrus.org. A Unix-based server is required for installation and use of all features, however, a hosting service can be provided by UniHelp e.V. on request, especially for student organizations.
There will be a keysigning party at PGDay.(it|eu) in Prato/Italy. The event is the last track on Friday in the evening, probably around 16:50-17:30 (that’s 4:50-5:30 pm).